Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Qwen1.5-7B

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google

41.5

Rank #133 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-7B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.4

Rank #273 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen1.5-7B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads 64.2 to 29.6.
  • Qwen1.5-7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen1.5-7B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index41.531.4
Released2026-07-212024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.30—
Output $ / M tokens$2.50—
Results tracked3913

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.4 (#104), Qwen1.5-7B: 32.2 (#276)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Coding14531107
LMArena WebDev1440—
SciCode41.3%—
WeirdML39%—
ALE-Bench765.27—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#107), Qwen1.5-7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen1.5-7B
APEX-Agents29.3%—
GDP.pdf10%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#114), Qwen1.5-7B: 20.4 (#240)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Hard Prompts14411065
ARC-AGI-210.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)60.4%—
ARC-AGI-153.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles22%—
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
DTBench83.5%—
LMCA37.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index145.13—

Math Qwen1.5-7B leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.9 (#264), Qwen1.5-7B: 31.4 (#224)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Math14331080
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)26%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%—
ProofBench13%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.1 (#72), Qwen1.5-7B: 28.7 (#243)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Expert14351055
GPQA Diamond83.3%—
MMLU—62.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 41.1 (#40), Qwen1.5-7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Vision1268—

Multilingual Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.5 (#63), Qwen1.5-7B: 28.5 (#271)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Non-English14271058
LMArena Chinese14691141
LMArena Russian14431006
LMArena French1451—
LMArena German1454—
LMArena Japanese1427—
LMArena Korean1407—
LMArena Spanish1442—

Instruction Following Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 74.8 (#85), Qwen1.5-7B: 54.1 (#281)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Instruction Following14201058

Long Context Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.9 (#84), Qwen1.5-7B: 33.1 (#266)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Longer Query14351090

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.2 (#57), Qwen1.5-7B: 29.6 (#293)

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 Flash LiteQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Text14351083
LMArena Creative Writing14201035
LMArena Multi-Turn14451062
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1559—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better than Qwen1.5-7B?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Qwen1.5-7B better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 32.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Qwen1.5-7B share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 39 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-7B has 13.

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